Unsealed original divorce documents don't mention Fani Willis

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By Joyce Lupiani
Published January 24, 2024 11:33AM Fulton County FOX 5 Atlanta

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The recently unsealed records pertaining to the divorce of Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade do not provide any new evidence of an "improper, clandestine" relationship with his superior, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Wade was appointed by Willis to lead the investigation into the Georgia election interference case, resulting in the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others. On Jan. 8, co-defendant Michael Roman, a former White House aide, filed a motion alleging a romantic involvement between Willis and Wade, along with benefiting from the investigation. Roman also requested the unsealing of Nathan and Joycelyn Wade's divorce records.

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Henry Thompson ordered the unsealing of these records on Monday. However, the extensive documents, spanning hundreds of pages, make no mention of Willis or any other potential romantic interest.

Nathan and Joycelyn Wade were married on June 21, 1997, and separated on Aug. 15, 2021, with Nathan filing for divorce on Nov. 2, 2021 ...

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/unsealed-divorce-documents-do-not-mention-fulton-county-da-fani-willis

[Think. Again.]

1. Are there any kind of...

...court rules against disrupting a court case with false motions that have no evidentiary basis?

[elleng]

4. Yes.

[Think. Again.]

8. Thanks...

...Obviously, those rules should be immediately and fully applied to Michael Roman and his attorneys.

[struggle4progress]

2. Ratfucking? Attorneys accuse Fani Willis of trying to foment racial bias

By Amy Gardner and Holly Bailey
Updated January 25, 2024 at 2:53 p.m. EST|Published January 25, 2024 at 2:13 p.m. EST

Lawyers defending former president Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case on Thursday accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) of making racially charged accusations against the defendants that could prejudice a future jury and asked a judge to disqualify her and dismiss the case.

The motion from lawyers Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, comes more than two weeks after Trump’s co-defendant Mike Roman alleged in a court filing that Willis appointed Nathan Wade to serve as lead prosecutor in the case — and subsequently paid him more than $650,000 in hourly fees — while engaging in a romantic relationship with him.

Roman requested that Willis and Wade be disqualified from the case and that all charges against him be dropped. Nearly a week later, Willis offered her only public comments on the controversy to date in a 35-minute speech before the congregation at the Big Bethel AME Church, during which she broadly accused her critics of attacking her and Wade because they are Black. In her remarks at the historically Black church, framed as a talk with God to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, Willis questioned why Wade was targeted and not the two other private attorneys appointed as special prosecutors in the case, who are White. She did not mention Roman or any other defendants by name.

They also wrote that Willis’s remarks amount to a violation of Georgia’s rules of professional conduct, which state that the prosecutor in a criminal case shall “refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused.” They noted that the maximum penalty for such a violation is disbarment ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/25/trump-fani-willis-racial-bias-georgia-election/

UP NEXT: What about somebody's cousin's boss's sister-in-law saying she thought she saw Fani Willis rob a liquor store somewhere in North Dakota or Miami fifteen or twenty years ago?

[elleng]

3. Maybe because there was no '"improper, clandestine" relationship.'

[onecaliberal]

6. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

[Probatim]

7. I liked the line in the article - "no new evidence". As if there was any evidence previously. Just as accusation.

[PJMcK]

9. Where's the conflict of interest?

DA Willis hired Mr. Wade as a special prosecutor, (sorry if I have the technical jurisdictional distinction incorrect). They are on the same side of the legal equation so even if they were married (probably) there wouldn’t be a conflict. (I know that wouldn’t happen.)

Me. Wade is a lawyer in private practice. He probably bills in the high $100s per hour. Taking this gig is a step backwards for him financially. The idea that he and DA Willis are using this as a financial opportunity is ludicrous! Never mind that there isn’t any evidence of malfeasance.

Trump’s idiot horde are desperate as they see the walls closing in on the schmuck.

[elleng]

10. THANKS, PJ,

there IS no conflict of interest.

[Hugin]

5. Of course there's no mention. n/t

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11. You mean there's no "there" there?

[emulatorloo]

12. Does not surprise me at all. Thanks for the update.